For years, the University of Wisconsin’s Department of Mechanical Engineering foundry has served as a learning environment for students eager to gain hands-on manufacturing skills. But, the early ...

An interview with a current SCU student on the intersection of art and engineering SCU Senior Micah Thomas was interviewed to discuss his experience studying both Mechanical Engineering and Studio Art ...

We interviewed Jeff Lieberman at the 2012 Science and Engineering Festival. Jeff was host of the popular Discovery Channel show Time Warp. This show is only one example of his belief that mixing of ...

Three years ago, leaders at Northwestern Engineering and the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art had an idea— to directly engage artists with engineers by embedding an Artist-at-Large with the ...

Rice University’s Moody Center for the Arts recently hosted the first undergraduate social for engineering students, bringing together students from across different engineering departments for an ...

This is “Extreme Makeover,” and it is kinetic sculpture artist Duane Flatmo’s latest creation. And I have to say, being inside it–for that’s where we are, inside a giant abstract head–is really funny.

Julio M. Ottino (NAE) is dean of the Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Northwestern University, and Distinguished Robert R. McCormick Institute Professor and Walter P.

Athens, Ga. – Leonardo Da Vinci’s two-wheeled hoist encapsulates the fusion of form and function. Presented in cutaway and exploded views from many directions, this master of perspective created ...

Nearly 2,000 years ago in the Fayum region of Egypt—an agriculturally rich area west of the Nile Valley—a relatively healthy five-year-old girl died, likely of a bacterial or viral infection. Though ...